Sack for don active in politics
A leading member of the Belorusian opposition has lost her university post and other academic staff active in the pro-democracy movement have been told they face the sack if they continue with their...
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Ministers stick to fees rules
MINISTERS will clarify the position of Oxbridge colleges in relation to top-up fees when they discuss the Teaching and Higher Education bill in the Commons after Easter. They are likely to make it...
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Exam bonus lost in the mists of accounts
It was an idea Robin Hood would have been proud of: German university professors should give up the bonus payments they receive for each exam they supervise and the money saved would be ploughed back...
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Reforms honed to Europe
France's university degree system faces profound change if reforms proposed by a commission of inquiry into higher education go ahead. Chaired by Jacques Attali, a state counsellor and former head of...
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Belorus pilots entryby exam
Education ministers in Belorus have taken the first step towards a unified, European-style system of university entrance by running a pilot programme to introduce written school-leaving exams. The...
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Berlinguer's slow road to radicalism
The ills of the university system and the possibility of radical reforms are today one of the most hotly debated issues in Italian politics and the media. If this is the case, it is at least partly...
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Storm over upgrading technicians
The Italian higher education ministry is under mounting pressure to alter controversial plans to upgrade nearly 4,000 graduate technicians from non-teaching staff to associate professors. The plan...
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CVCP just says no
Your article on the "drug-dealer student" (THES, April 3) wrongly accuses United Kingdom universities of "sweeping under the carpet", "turning a blind eye" and being "complacent", in their treatment...
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Dearing goes abroad
The committee of inquiry had no time to do more than note the international dimension of higher education. But Britain must not be left behind the game, says Lord Dearing. THE vice-chancellors of 17...
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IRA death threat
Vincent McKenna, a postgraduate student at Queen's University Belfast, has received a death threat from the IRA. This follows the expression of views by him on the issue of Orange marches on the...
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Science research under pressure
Easter is a good time to review higher education's position, as the comprehensive spending review reaches its final stages. There is good and bad in the record. On the good side, applications from...
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Truth in the digital age
THE Internet has made it vastly easier for people to tell the world about themselves. But there is usually no guarantee that what they say is true. That could change. If universities issued...
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We're women, not girls
We need look no further than the title of the article "Thinking like a man is good for the girls" (THES, March 13) to refute its claim. Men are men, it seems, while women remain girls, not allowed to...
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Don's diary
Saturday. The Political Studies Association conference we are organising this year has been an outstanding success. A succession of brilliant papers, three days of continuous sunshine, the food has...
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Good service from the admin office
MEASURING the quality of service students receive in higher education has focused on teaching and learning, which can be inspected and audited according to set standards and procedures. But can and...